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My Fifteen Favorite Illustrations from the 1983 Sesame Street Word Book
I wrote a lot of words about a word book yesterday, which seems appropriate, but, to be honest, reading the 1983 edition of The Sesame Street Word Book is a primarily a visual experience. It’s telling...
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VIDEO: How David Wiesner Created Art & Max
Take a look at how David Wiesner got started on “Art & Max” Here’s a very cool video with David Wiesner, creator of Art & Max, one of my favorite picture books about art, talking about the...
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Why You Should Celebrate Free Comic Book Day with Your Kid
Seriously, how can Arbor Day ever hope to compete? Parents – Want to have a fun time with your kids at an event that actively encourages them to read? Then you should definitely take advantage of Free...
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Free Comic Book Day Might Be The Best Literacy Holiday EVER
If you’re in a participating area of North America today, try taking your kid to Free Comic Book Day today, May 4th. There are a lot of really amazing books available and they’re free, free, FREE. If...
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Six Great Books That Can Help Your Kid Learn to Appreciate Art
If I rub my chin and look thoughtfully at the painting, maybe people will think I know what I’m talking about… I don’t know much about art. I couldn’t tell an impressionist from an expressionist if my...
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10 Amazing Things You Can Find in 826 Michigan’s Don’t Stay Up So Late
Good advice that kids never listen to… As I’ve mentioned, 826 Michigan’s Don’t Stay Up So Late is a brilliant book, a “treasury of bedtime stories written for children by children” that was crafted...
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One of the Coolest Books of Maps That Your Kid Will Ever See
It delivers what it promises… I love coffee table books. They’re just these huge, panoramic sources of information and, as a kid, I particularly loved them because, in addition to being beautiful, they...
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21 Kids’ Books Coming Out in October That You Should Be Excited About
This looks like a cool one… It started simply – I asked myself, “I wonder what new kids’ books are coming out in October.” Two hours later, I was still browsing through publisher catalogs, muttering to...
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Why Eric Wight’s Frankie Pickle Books Might Be the Coolest Early Readers Ever
Pickles. Why’d it have to be pickles? Early readers can be a tricky kids’ book genre. I’m not actually sure that’s the preferred term – sometimes they’re called early chapter books, beginning books,...
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The Best Kids’ Halloween Book Ever: Adam Rex’s Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Before I get started, let me say that I know that saying anything is the “best EVER” is one of the internet’s most heinous and frequent sins. Everything online has to be the greatest or the worst....
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